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JBIMS GDPI Experience 2011 for MBA-CET
12 years ago
Saturday, February 14, 2009
NSS trip
Recently the NSS wing of our college went to some remote village (Mokhada) of Maharashtra.The events they described and the way they described it made me realize how influenced they were by those events. The photos revealed that they sure enjoyed a lot. But they stayed only for a day or two at each of the villages. They said that they were no bathrooms,toilets at a village where they went. Accidentaly I alos had gone to my village during that period. I would like to tell them my side of the story-
My native place is a village named Bhitari near Jaunpur in U.P.. Here we have no bathrooms, no cable television (most of the televisons are black and white and many do not even have one) .We have stolen electricity that is we have a line running from the main line which supplies electricity to the entire village ( This event was described relishfully by one of the NSS sight-seeing group) . Hence we have free power. We bathe and drink from the same river ( This event was also mentioned by them). We had kutchha roads till a year back but thanks to the U.P. government we have now a road till our village.I remember previously a rickshaw had overturned while taking me to my village. We have open air toilets (that's the best way to describe it).
The nearest hospital is 3 hours away. Students cycle for miles to reach their schools(imagine getting up at 6:00 am in the morning in the winter when teamperature is at 8 degrees centigrade and going to school/college).
There are many kuccha houses in my village ( This may sound strange to someone who never lived in a village).
I am not saying that the NSS show was a farce. They did some really good job by teaching a few kids. They even counselled some of the students from the 10th and 12th standards. The students who had gone also realized the state of villages. From the photos I gleaned I realized that they also enjoyed a lot. But all this is of some use only if these people do not consider this as a vacation but feel to bring out a real change in society.
THE MOKHADA GROUP ON A VACATION
P.S. There was one event which made me laugh when they said 15 people had to go in a Tata sumo.12 people go in a rickshaw in my place and 25 people would go easily in a Sumo(with luggage of course).
My native place is a village named Bhitari near Jaunpur in U.P.. Here we have no bathrooms, no cable television (most of the televisons are black and white and many do not even have one) .We have stolen electricity that is we have a line running from the main line which supplies electricity to the entire village ( This event was described relishfully by one of the NSS sight-seeing group) . Hence we have free power. We bathe and drink from the same river ( This event was also mentioned by them). We had kutchha roads till a year back but thanks to the U.P. government we have now a road till our village.I remember previously a rickshaw had overturned while taking me to my village. We have open air toilets (that's the best way to describe it).
The nearest hospital is 3 hours away. Students cycle for miles to reach their schools(imagine getting up at 6:00 am in the morning in the winter when teamperature is at 8 degrees centigrade and going to school/college).
There are many kuccha houses in my village ( This may sound strange to someone who never lived in a village).
I am not saying that the NSS show was a farce. They did some really good job by teaching a few kids. They even counselled some of the students from the 10th and 12th standards. The students who had gone also realized the state of villages. From the photos I gleaned I realized that they also enjoyed a lot. But all this is of some use only if these people do not consider this as a vacation but feel to bring out a real change in society.
P.S. There was one event which made me laugh when they said 15 people had to go in a Tata sumo.12 people go in a rickshaw in my place and 25 people would go easily in a Sumo(with luggage of course).
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